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flam /:2 fiwmiaz 6 a 4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CALENDARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,391, dated January26, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PATTON, of Indianapolis, county of Marion,and State of Indiana, have invented anew and useful calendar, which Ihave designated a Separated and Concentrated Calendar, and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of thesame, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figurel is a view of the calendar complete. Fig. 2 represents the sevencards on which are printed the days of the week. Fig. 3 represents thecards on which are printed the last few days of a month and the firstfew days of the next month.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a calendar of simpleand compact form, so arranged as. to show the date and number of days ofpresent month, and from four to seven days of the next month, whichindicates the changes necessary to preserve the date.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe it.

I usually make my calender as shown in the drawings, Fig. 1, the backbeing of tin, having a thin piece of wood, I), secured thereto in themiddle to divide and keep the cards (shown in Figs.2 and 3) intheirpropcr places in the calendar.

The head-lines Separated and Concentrated Calendar, Present Month, andthe numbers .1 to 28, inclusive, are printed upon 0'16 card, the shapeof which is indicated by the red lines. This card is secured to the thinwooden strip I) in the position shown in Fig. 1.. The front is thencovered by a glass, which is secured in its place by means of thepreserver 0, which also makes a neat finish to the calendar and securesall firmly together. Thecards containing the days of the week, ar-

ranged as shown in Fig. 2, are placed in the space between the glassfront and the back on the left of the dividing-strip I), and the fourcards containing the numbers as shown in Fig. 3 in the space on theright. The calendar will then have the appearance shown in- Fig. 1.

To use the calendar, place that card containing the days of the week infront the first day on which commences the present month, (or any monthin which the calendar may be arranged to show the date,) also the cardrequired to show the number of days in the m0nththat is, if it be themonth of February and not leap year, place the card a in front, but ifit be leap-year place the card a, in front. If it be one of the monthshaving thirty days, place the card a in front, and if one of the monthshaving thirty-one days, place the card a in front.

It will be observed that the last-named cards also contain the numbers1, 2, 3, 4, &c. These numbers are for the purpose of showing on what daythe next month begins, so that if, by negligence or otherwise, the cardsare not properly changed on the lastof one month or the first of thenext, still they can be correctly changed at any time during the monthby placing that card to the front the first day on which is the same daythat was opposite the figure 1 on the card a a a a, as may be. By thismeans the user is prevented from losing the date.

I claiin As a new article of manufacture, the calendar herein described,when ,arran ged and operated substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

JAMES M. PAITON.

\Vitnesses:

O. F. MAYHEW, J AMES E. MoGUIRE.

